News
"A Body to Live In" Links Pain, Spirituality, and Cultural Appropriation
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (666+ words) Some documentaries ask us to observe. A Body to Live In asks us to feel. But the deeper achievement of A Body to Live In is that it refuses to flatten Musafar into either saint or villain. Instead, it holds…...
"DTF St. Louis" Delves into the Strange Math of Male Obsession
2+ week, 3+ day ago (699+ words) There are two ways to read the title of DTF St. Louis. The obvious interpretation is crude, a joke that sounds like it belongs on a dating app or scribbled into the margins of a frat house notebook. But the…...
How the Internet Set Up "The Secret Agent" for Oscar Success
3+ week, 3+ day ago (664+ words) But the paradigm has shifted. After Walter Salles's I'm Still Here won the International statue in 2025, we're back for a second year in a row. Now, the Academy Awards' official international films category goes back to 1956. It was then known…...
"Outlander" Is Ending, but the Journey Continues
3+ week, 6+ day ago (243+ words) On-screen chemistry says a lot about whether a show will succeed. In Outlander, Claire (Caitr'ona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) radiate intensity in every scene " making a hypnotic, passionate love story. Now, after eight seasons across twelve years, the final…...
With Sharp Irony, Puerto Rico May Lose the Bad Bunny & Residente Film
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (550+ words) What much of that coverage has not meaningfully examined is the political controversy surrounding where this film may " or may not " be made. Bad Bunny and Residente are not casual investors in the island's image. They have repeatedly used their…...
For Women's History Month 2026, I Dove into the Literary Archives
1+ mon, 21+ hour ago (250+ words) The magazine is joyfully rich with Latinas " it's a space to be loud and create community. Let me take you into the archive. A "collective of Latin American and Canadian women" founded Aquelarre. In their first issue, they explain their…...
"Starfleet Academy" Finally Advances Trek’s Klingon Problem
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (782+ words) There are people who discovered Star Trek casually. Then there are those of us who grew up with it humming in the background like a moral engine. In my house, that engine was loud. I'd be halfway through Buffy the…...
"Aztec Batman" Uses Culture as a Source of Empowerment
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (748+ words) I don't usually rent the latest Batman movie within days of its release, and I tend to prioritize drama and culture over action when selecting a film. But I love culture being used as a source of empowerment " and Aztec…...
"Silenced" Shows How Defamation Law Became A Weapon Against Survivors
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (588+ words) After the cultural dam broke in 2017 and survivors began speaking out in numbers too large to ignore, a familiar countercurrent followed. The language changed. The tactics modernized. But the intent remained ancient: make the cost of speaking so high that…...
In "TheyDream," One Artist’s Losses Fuel His Creativity
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (243+ words) What do we do in the face of life's impermanence? This is one of the questions raised by the experimental 2026 Sundance documentary, TheyDream. Puerto Rican filmmaker William D. Caballero reckons with this question and answers it by creating. Caballero's medium " filmmaking…...